Posted on 12/01/2006 9:39:14 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
This says the conservative wing lost very few seats. That is a good thing.
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In California , at a state level, conservative republicans actually replaced a few moderates in the state legislature, but you won't hear about that much either.
Overall no seats actually changed party hands tho.
Inroads have been made, but we need to unload a few more of these scumbag liberal Republicans every time there's a primary rather than shrug our shoulders as we nonchalantly watch them lose in the general elections.
"The Mitt Romney Deception": http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/s/spip.php?article325
B/c it would require more honesty than they possess?
There are a good many decent right-thinking people in CA...
Yes there are.
A lot of them have gotten so fed up with being preached to and stabbed in the back by "their own", many of them have said screw voting,, it's too bad, here's to reclaiming the party and rekindling the fire.
I see it happening...
Why vote for a Main Street GOPer when you could vote for a real Democrat?
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Yup. Rahm Emanuel was smart enough to figure that one out.... and then some.
He was, but he was also lucky, in that Bush's war had made the Pubbies particularly radioactive this past election.
But you're colloquially right in stating 'liberal republican,' that's a stomach turning fact as of Nov. 7, 2006.
They went in as RINOs and handed over power to the socialists.
That too is true... and you only have to win an individual race by 1 vote..
Lincoln Chafee was a Traditional Reagan Republican? Who knew?
Here she says "unite around shared values" and elsewhere is whining about "partisan bickering."
That bickering isn't partisan, IMO, but because her group has moved away from those values.
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/press111506.htm
PRESS RELEASE
November 15, 2006
America Needs a Strong, United GOP
The Republican Party Should United Around Shared Values
(Washington, D.C.) – "The election of 2006 is over," said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, Executive Director of the Republican Main Street Partnership. "Now is the time for our party to put aside our differences and unite around shared values. With Democrats in charge in the House and the Senate, now, more than ever, America needs a strong, united Republican Party."
"Our party has a historic opportunity to recapture the middle of the American electorate and build a lasting legislative majority," continued Resnick. "We need to celebrate our ideological diversity and recognize that people of good faith can disagree on complex social issues. The way forward for our party is not to battle over our differences, but to highlight areas where our party is unified."
"Ronald Reagan built a big tent party that attracted conservatives and moderates, Republicans and independents, and people from all across the country. The foundation of this big tent party was a belief in limited government, a commitment to free market economics, and a confident foreign policy," said Resnick. "Now is the time for the GOP to return to those core principles. The American voter is hungry for solutions and we should be the party that provides them."
"The Republican Main Street Partnership is committed to bringing back Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party. Main Street recognizes that the GOP is not monolithic, and for our party to succeed we will need the support of Republicans of all ideological stripes. Our party’s way forward is clear," concluded Resnick.
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The Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP) is dedicated to promoting and building the Republican Party as a thoughtful, fiscally conservative, inclusive “Governing Majority,” where political debate is encouraged to promote common sense solutions to improve the lives of all Americans. Embracing the full spectrum of Republican ideologies and values in order to build coalitions, RMSP is the largest organization of elected Traditional Ronald Reagan Republicans in the nation, with over 60 members serving in the U.S. House and Senate.
For more information on RMSP, visit our website at www.republicanmainstreet.org.
If you gain the moderates and Independents...what have you gained?
To the 'Main Streeters': what would be wrong with developing America's domestic oil supplies? Unless "centrists" believe the environmental hysteria that humans can possibly bring about global doom, why oppose off shore drilling?
Jim Moran (Moron) is. Check out the website morantics.com
and you will see what a degenerate this slime bucket is.
Exactly! I wish they would join the evil that they truly represent. Make notes and withold funds at election time. Money is the only motivating factor for a Rino...
LLS
"But despite a severe bruising in the fall election, this minority within a minority finds itself with new avenues to explore, including working more closely with Democrats."
They were once a minority in the majority and because of them became the minority within the minority.
Botton line is they are liberals who put an "R" next to their name to get elected. It no longer applies. The Democrats did the Republicans a big favor by weeding out the RINO's. It will take a few years for the Conservatives to bounce back.
Hopefully we will have enough time.
PINK ELEPHANTS...
More like Sesame Street Republicans...
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